Next Asus ZenWatch may feature one-week battery life

posted by Florin T. / Jan 26, 2015, 6:48 PM

Asus' first smartwatch - the ZenWatch - was launched in late 2014, being hailed as one of the best-looking Android Wear devices to date. However, besides the fresh look, the ZenWatch offers a set of pretty standard features, so it doesn't differentiate itself enough from the pack. But the second generation ZenWatch might.

According to Focus Taiwan, Asus Chairman Jonney Shih recently talked about the ZenWatch, mentioning that the next model should come with simplified "central processing unit and operating system" in order to allow a usage time of up to one week on a single charge.

Right now, smartwatches typically provide a usage time of up to 2 days on one charge. Thus, the new Asus ZenWatch might really push things forward in this regard. Another novely (at least for Asus) that the upcoming smartwatch could bring is the ability to make calls without the help of a smartphone - just like Samsung's Gear S.

If you're excited about the possibility of having a smartwatch with really long battery life, you should know that Asus doesn't plan to release its new ZenWatch before the third quarter of the year. The current ZenWatch model (seen above) is sold for $199, and we expect the new one to be priced similarly. Reportedly, Asus is also getting ready to launch two wristbands at lower price points. We have a feeling that there will be many, many other new wearables and smartwatches introduced throughout the year, and we're looking forward to seeing them all.

posted on Jan 26, 2015, 9:39 PM 0

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posted on Jan 26, 2015, 9:49 PM 0

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The pebble is like running with a 120mhz STM32F2 MCU (cortex-M2) with 128kb of ram, and up to 8mb of storage (for steel and newer pebbles), a monochrome 168x144 non touch e-ink display, no microphone or speaker, no heart rate monitor, no gyroscope. The pebble can hold up to 8 user apps and watch faces.
The current Asus Zen watch is running a 1.2ghz CPU with 512mb of ram, 4gb of storage, 9-axis accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, heart rate monitor, microphone for voice input and commands, a 320x320 touch screen AMOLED color display (16 million colors).
With Asus Zen or any Android Wear device you can install music and play to any Bluetooth speakers or headset. Something only the pebble can only dream about. Android Wear can connect to Bluetooth devices like cars or locks directly without the need to carry your smartphone or tablet. You can have any number of apps that can fill up your 4gb of storage. All Android Wear or Tizen watches have 4096 times more ram then any pebble, and 512 times more storage.
Your completely right the Pebble and any Android Wear are a league apart.
Advantage Android Wear.

posted on Jan 27, 2015, 9:14 AM 0

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Mine lasts a week, cost under a 100 and I carry a phone an tablet already for true communications.
Also won't crap a brick if I forget it on destroy it working.
League apart an differing classes.
Not sure why the verbosity for that but Ok, you like the Asus.
You win, checkmate.